The Private-Public Sector

AUTHOR(S)

WILLIAMSON, KEVIN D.

PUB. DATE

August 2014

SOURCE

National Review;8/25/2014, Vol. 66 Issue 15, p18

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article discusses how the private sector in the U.S. provides services that the author believes the public sector should, but often cannot, provide. Topics include how the coffee shop chain Starbucks is often used in New York City only for its bathroom facilities, the issue of homeless people after the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, and the third place as presented by sociologist Ray Oldenburg.

ACCESSION #

97371276

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